Albert Hughes: Dead Presidents is flawed, took years for them to think Boyz N the Hood was a good movie, American Me is better than every hood film.

[Mister Terrific]

1. Full Metal Jacket
2. Dead Presidents

Vietnam war films for me

 

[Tasha And]

I just recently watched Boyz N' The Hood again, and it's absolutely nutty how it beats you over the head with the "knowledge" that it kicks. I mean, they even tell you to go to church to find a good woman.

It's like the movie is trying to deliver a message within every scene, and that's absolutely where Don't Be A Menace got their "MESSAGE!" line from.

shyt is high-key annoying...

Rewatch Menace with that same critical eye. It's even more unsubtle with the "message!" elements. Entire characters exist only to deliver messages.

 

[I love Latina women]

IMO , "from hell" is My least favorite movie they made . They should talk about that!

Albert just did in the latest clip

It was during this time him and Allen had a lot of issues on the movie set, fighting/arguing back and forth

 

[Art Barr]

Menace kills boyzndahood.


Boyzndahood = the gateway film to allow other young filmmakers outside of spike lee an avenue.
In maijg what would then be tongue in cheek labeled urban.

Which created the lane and avenue for menace to exist.

Yet menace in timeline is after Boyz.

It is still the better everything incomparison to boyzndahood.


Art Barr

 

[patscorpio]

Dead Presidents is an all time classic, i felt like that back then and still do now. There's no weak link or unnecessary plot in the whole movie.

Facts..shyt I think its chris tucker's best performance acting wise

 

[RickyDiBiase]

You gotta remember how young John Singleton and even the Hughes Bros were. Kinda incredible they did what they did.

That’s true

How young were they

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

the cinematography in this scene is flawless & you can tell the Hughes Bros got inspiration from Goodfellas

 

[Ziggiy]

Boys In The Hood>>>>>Menace. John Singleton is a better writer than the Hughes Brothers and it shows when comparing the two films

Dead Presidents however is the best of all of them. That movie is a stone cold classic. I know art is subjective but Albert tripping on this one. There’s so much to love about that movie and Larenze Tate acted his ENTIRE ass off in a movie chalk full of great performances

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

If Pac played O-Dog it would have been very different. Larenz Tate really did feel like a teenage killer without a care in the world. O-Dog was a baby faced killer.

Pac would have probably played it like Lil Ze from City of God (I know the movie came out years later just using the type of performance I think he would have went for)

Should have cast him as Caine if for anything. Although maybe at the time he didnt seem innocent enough.

They wanted Eazy E for O-Dog and Mc-Ren for Wax at first.

Larenz was perfect for that role..I know South Central (the show on Fox) came out after Menace but in an alternate reality everything that happened to Andre in that lone szn of South Central made him become O Dog, they never really talked about O Dog’s home life in Menace

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

That’s true

How young were they

John Singleton was just 22 when working on Boyz N the Hood

Hughes Bros were 21 when working on Menace. 23 when working on Dead Presidents

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

Larenz was perfect for that role..I know South Central (the show on Fox) came out after Menace but in an alternate reality everything that happened to Andre in that lone szn of South Central made him become O Dog, they never really talked about O Dog’s home life in Menace

There is a Heath Ledger Joker type scenario with Larenz Tate/O-Dog.

Where if you remove him from the movie the quality dips tremendously despite the excellent technical aspect of the film.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

You don't think he could've played O-Dog? Pac made Bishop into a scary motherfukka.

No, I think he could have played O-Dog but he's not a better actor than Larenz Tate.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

fukk vlad

Yup.

Have no idea why folks are tripping over the males to do his show. Clearly he is throwing bags their way or people know that it’s easy promo and exposure for them.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

the cinematography in this scene is flawless & you can tell the Hughes Bros got inspiration from Goodfellas

It's like the steadicam shot that Scorsese did for Henry Hill as we enter his world..... while comic book stans hate on Scorsese he was out here giving the world this type of cinema, you don't get better filmmaking than this

 

[robb]

blood in blood out will always be better than American Me.
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Sorry no tortilla!